Week 3 "Mid- & long-distance"

             Hello, this is my blog’s third topic! Last week, I wrote about “sprints and hurdles” one of the track and field event. All of the events in sprints and hurdles are very short! Except 4*400mR, they may finish in at least 1 minutes. Today, turn around, I’ll write about “Mid- & long-distance”. As mentioned in last week’s topic, sprints and hurdles are my athletic event. So I don’t think I want to run too long distance more than 100m! Today also start by seeing the world recorders and their records.
 

Men

800m...1.41.89(David Lekuta Rudisha : Kenya)

1500m...3.26.00(Hicham El Guerrouj : Morocco)

5000m...12.37.35(Kenenisa Bekele : Ethiopia)

10000m...23.17.53(Kenenisa Bekele : Ethiopia)

3000mSC...7.53.63(Saif Saaeed Shaheen : Qatar)                       

 

Women

800m...1.53.28(Jarmila Kratochvilova : Ceskoslovenska republika)

1500m...3.50.49(曲雲霞 (Qǔ Yúnxiá)  : China)

5000m...14.11.15(Tirunesh Dibaba : Ethiopia)

10000m...29.31.78(王軍霞 (Wang Junxia) : China)

3000mSC...8.53.81(Gulnara Iskanderovna Samitova-Galkina : Russia)

 

event … time (name : country)

(Wikipedia)

 

  

              As you know, there are more other events for example a walking race and a marathon and …, but they have many different distance and many world records with its variety. So I write about only track events today.

 

As not the last week (sprints and hurdles), they don’t lean one or two country. But recently worldwide track and field games, Kenya and Ethiopia are too strong. In London Olympic (2012), in spite of the world recorder Kenenisa Bekele was default by his injuries, the two country won many medals. Especially 5000m and 10000m, men won three medals without Kenenisa Bekele and women won six medals. In other words, the two events that 5000m and 10000m of women, Kenya and Ethiopia made a monopoly of a winner’s plat form!

 

By the way, I think you have no idea that what is the event of one event. It is 3000mSC. Do you think what is 3000mSC? Today I focus on this strange event.   First, 3000mSC is what kind of events? To say simply, it is the event to run 3000m with crossing 28 obstacles and 7 water jumps. The obstacle is like a balance beam. Four obstacles are placed in 400m (a track round) and one water jump is placed in 400m. The height of the obstacle of men is 91.4cm, of women is 76.2cm. The depth of the water jump is 0.7m regardless sex, and the length of it of men is 3.66m, of women is 30.6m. These obstacles are too heavy to move easy, it is usual for world crass runners to stumble over them. Running 3000m is too hard for me but in addition to running, I should cross many obstacles? I couldn’t imagine the bitterness!

Second, I explain about the name where comes from. 3000m signify the length, what is the meaning of “S” and “C”? “S” means Steeple, “C” means Chase. To write 3000mSC without omitting, it is “Three thousand meters Steeple Chase”. “Steeple” means a tall pointed tower on the roof of a church, and “Chase” means to quickly follow someone or something in order to catch them. (Longman Dictionary Of Contemporary English). Namely, Steeple Chase means that to compete to a tall pointed tower on the roof of a church or to hunt with riding a horse. Therefore, people have called obstacle race of horses in Britain Steeple Chase. And the race that people running and crossing obstacles instead of horses named this name.

Third, how this strange event have been spreaded? In 1850, some students in Oxford held an outside race that had twenty four obstacles. There were twenty four runners and all of them running 3128m (2 miles) with passing through streams and wetlands. Since then, it is be realized that the outside race change for inside by placing some artificial obstacles in the schoolyard. About 1860, many public schools and universities have held a track and field athletic meeting or an interscholastic match, the obstacle race was adapted as a formal event. The interscholastic of Oxford VS Cambridge in 1964, 2 miles obstacles race was held. It is supposed one of the factors of staying the event as in a ground.

 

Today I write about Mid- & long-distance especially 3000mSC. Do you understand the meaning of S and C? Who read this topic is surely understanding!

My 3rd week’s topic “Mid- & long-distance” is over. Next time, I’ll write about “Jumps” and be happy you read it. See you next time.

 

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